Summer with Monika Blu-ray

Release Year: 1953

Runtime: 98 min

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Cast: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke Fridell, Naemi Briese

Studios: SF Studios

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

Special Features:

New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack

Introduction by director Ingmar Bergman

New interview with actress Harriet Andersson, conducted by film scholar Peter Cowie

New interview with film scholar Eric Schaefer about Kroger Babb and his distribution of Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl! as an exploitation film

Images from the Playground, a half-hour documentary by Stig Björkman featuring behind-the-scenes footage shot by Bergman, archival audio interviews with Bergman, and new interviews with actresses Bibi Andersson and Harriet Andersson

Trailer

New English subtitle translation

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Laura Hubner, a 1958 review by filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, and a publicity piece from 1953 in which Bergman interviews himself

Technical Specifications:

• 97 minutes
• Black & White
• Monaural
• In Swedish with English subtitles
• 1.37:1 Aspect Ratio